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Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

Flaunt your karaoke chops at this pitch-perfect dive bar.

Located inside a former record pressing plant, this recording studio pays homage to the techniques and gear of a bygone age.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

Get some farm-to-table history at this living history museum, where you’ll learn what farm life was like a hundred years ago.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.